How To Make Complex CPQ Selling Simple With Visual Configurators
Bottom Line: Realizing visual configurators’ full potential starts by enabling engineering, production, and sales to become real-time collaborators in creating new products. 2D, 3D, Augmented Reality (AR), Mixed Reality (MR), and Virtual Reality (VR) visual configurators are proliferating across the Configure, Price, and Quote (CPQ) landscape today. Manufacturing marketing teams say they are the most effective […]
How To Improve Your CPQ Pricing Strategies
Manufacturers can get more than their fair share of channel sales and margins by improving price management for every dealer, distributor, and reseller they sell-through. It’s possible to expand earnings by 50% on slight increases in volume when pricing is consistent channel-wide. McKinsey’s latest research on the topic, Pricing: Distributors’ Most Powerful Value-Creation Lever, shows how the […]
What Needs To Be On Your CPQ Channel Roadmap In 2019
Bottom Line: Adding new features to your CPQ channel selling platform directly benefits your resellers and channel partners, driving greater revenue, channel loyalty, and expansion into new markets. Personalization Is Key To CPQ Succeeding In Channels Sustaining and strengthening relationships across all indirect selling channels succeeds when dealers, multi-tier distributors, resellers, intermediaries, and service providers […]
CPQ Needs To Scale And Support Smarter, More Connected Products
For smart, connected product strategies to succeed they require a product lifecycle view of configurations, best attained by integrating PLM, CAD, CRM, and ERP systems. Capgemini estimates that the size of the connected products market will be $519B to $685B by 2020. In 2018, $985B will be spent on IoT-enabled smart consumer devices, soaring to […]
